Common Crane - 1947

Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 8:23AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Common Crane

Grus grus grus

Mathew records one caught on a farm near Solva, 28 April 1893, and which had been present some days before; it was preserved in the collection of the late H.W.Evans.

R.M.Lockley, G.C.S.Ingram, H.M.Salmon, 1949, The Birds of Pembrokeshire, The West Wales Field Society

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